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Los Angeles Review of Books
REVIEWS
REVIEWS
Feel this Now: Jennifer Doyle's "Hold It Against Me"
The Drugs Don’t Work: Tao Lin’s “Taipei”
God in Wayward Forms: Jamie Quatro’s Salvation-Seeking Adulteresses
Revenge of the Dryasdusts: Paul Hazard’s “The Crisis of the European Mind”
A City for Children in the Work of E. L. Konigsburg
Liberal Bias or Neoliberal Bias?: Neil Gross's "Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?"
Rewiring Literary Criticism
Pandas, Professors, and Promises, or, The MOOC Will Not Set Us Free
A Ladymass in the Distrito Federal: Veronica Gonzalez Peña's "The Sad Passions"
The Weight of History: Colum McCann’s "TransAtlantic"
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books by Geri Doran and Michael S. Harper
Peak Adventure: On Mountaineering and the Enlightenment
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ESSAYS
ESSAYS
But What About the Soul: Poets at the Movies (Part 1)
Bloomsday 2013: John Joyce
Mr. Chan and the Machine
MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 2)
MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 1)
Rape in the Military: Ben Klay's Testimony
Love, Loneliness, Rot: "That Smell" and Egypt Under Nasser
The White Worm: Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color"
What’s Left to Say? Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby
“Bliss Unending”: Why Luhrmann’s Dangerously Romantic Take On Gatsby Works
How To Read Agamben
The Empty Chair: A Petition for Ghassan Zaqtan
Post-Structural Integrity: "Arrested Development," Season Four
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INTERVIEWS
INTERVIEWS
[VIDEO] Mary Otis, "Yes, Yes, Cherries"
Living It Up at the Death Café: An Interview with Lizzy Miles
Digging Into Crimes: A Conversation with Peter May
[VIDEO] Matthew Specktor, "American Dream Machine"
Funambulism: An Interview with Colum McCann
PODCAST #32: Jeff Weiss & Evan McGarvey, "2pac vs. Biggie"
The Public Life of Poetry: An Interview with Natasha Trethewey
The Second Act of Alex Espinoza
[VIDEO] Stephen Burt, "Belmont: Poems"
50 Years of NYRB: An Interview with Robert Silvers
Paul Farmer: What He’s Afraid of, and What’s Wrong With The Way We Do Aid
Contextual Loneliness: An Interview with Fiona Maazel
PODCAST #31: Marc Maron, "Attempting Normal"
[VIDEO] Tom Bissell and The Perks of Being a Dilettante
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Film critic Richard Schickel on writing biographies.
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